Responding to the news of the disbandment of Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations Special Service Unit (SSU), Amnesty International Kenya’s Director Irungu Houghton said:
PRESS STATEMENT
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
The recent brutal killings of seven women in Nakuru County horrified the nation. Within weeks, police had arrested over a 100 youth and are now being accused of summarily executing four suspects. Yesterday, three police officers were convicted for killing the Mavoko 3. As the Jubilee regime prepares its handover, will extra-judicial killings be its darkest stain?
Following the public interest in the discovery of over thirty bodies, Amnesty International Kenya has completed a fact-finding mission to the area around River Yala. Contrary to the statement of the Police Spokesperson, we can confirm that the bodies were dumped and retrieved from the river between July 2021 and January 2022, with more bodies being discovered, the latest one this morning. Further investigation is required to reconcile the numbers documented by human rights defenders (31), Yala Hospital Morgue (21), and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (19).
PRESS STATEMENT 20TH JANUARY
As Caroline is laid to rest, Amnesty International Kenya acknowledges efforts of the Dandora Community Justice Center, Justice Centers working groups, IMLU, NCHRD-K, KHRC, Haki Africa, IJM as well as human rights networks and CSOs across the country for following up on the case of Caroline Mwatha.
MARCH 8, 2018